By Dania
Mendoza Gómez
Karela is a
very lively Nicaraguan young girl, one of those people who "are always up"
and, above all, she is very grateful for the support received from the Sandinista National Liberation
Front (FSLN) and the Cuban government.
Given the nexus of indissoluble friendship
between the two peoples she could be submitted to a kidney transplant on the
island. This means for her, of course, the possibility of a new life.
In her
homeland she could not even think to have such a complex operation because of its
huge costs; notwithstanding that previously, the FSLN, by indication of its
Secretary general, Daniel Ortega Saavedra, paid for four months and a half in a private hospital the hemodialysis treatment
the patients suffering from chronic renal failure should receive three times a
week.
Native to the
northern town of Santo Tomás Chantale, Karela was 27 years old when she began
to experience the symptoms of the
disease, initially diagnosed as acute renal failure, and which quickly became
terminal chronicle.
Despite
having certain economic resources due to a small family business, Karela could
not afford any of these procedures, because the Lenin Fonseca State Hospital
had only a peritoneal dialysis service.
"Only by
a hemodialysis session in that private hospital, she remembers, the Front,
whose leader I wrote to posing my case, paid the amount of $110, that without accounting
the monthly vaccines against hepatitis and other medicines and procedures needed
by patients using v machines or artificial kidneys that purify our blood.”
The FSLN was
responsable for the young woman’s ambulatory renal treatment, but the transplant
in that private hospital costs between US$25 000 and US $30 000, and the patient must wait for months and even
years.
Then, as
proof of huge sensitivity and humanism, the FSLN sent Karela, her mother and a relative who would be the donor, to
Cuba in May 2006. Later, mother and daughter were installed in the Hermanos
Ameijeiras Hospital.
The Cuban State
assumed free of charge both women’s accommodation in one of the comfortable
rooms of the health center, as well as an adequate food and the integral nephrological
treatment Karela needed.
Finally, the
compensation degree she got made possible the long-awaited transplant at the
end of 2007, also thanks to the solidarity and anonymous gesture of a Cuban
donor’s relatives.
She is
constantly giving thanks for the affection and hospitality so typical of the island, that they receivedf in the Nephrology
service of the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital and other places. At the same time,
she tells how her mother has received, also free of charge. medical care in
various specilalities.
As we said at
the beginning, Karela is a very optimistic girl who has faced not few and
difficult challenges. Being very young, when she was studying International Trade
at the Central American University in Managua, she suffered an irreversible
damage in the optic nerve which damaged her vision and had to drop out of
school.
She has many
plans for her return to her homeland, where the Government headed by Daniel
Ortega continues doing a lot for the welfare of the Nicaraguan people, under
the imprint of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America.
On the
personal level, Karela wants to set up a shop to sell sugar cane juice, because
"at home they do noy drink that delicious liquid. "
See, then, if
this has not been her rebirth and if Karela is not facing, quite rightly, a new
life.
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